Welcome
This site is a means to share my arts
practice, including individual art works, exhibitions
and site-specific installations and commissions. The
site is also a tool through which to explore concepts
and issues related to wellbeing, sustainability, and
nourishment.
For more than twenty years I have been working alongside
geo-scientists in arctic and desert regions as bush
cook, navigator, field assistant, and radio operator.
I travel to remote regions
because I delight exploring the Earth’s diversity,
which in urban areas is frequently destroyed through
ubiquitous land clearing practices and development.
I explore the Earth through my art because I revere
the Earth.
Geology, a nomadic field camp existence, the physical
labour of travelling extensively, and the organising
activities of ritually assembling and collapsing space-saving
gear is evident in my sculptural assemblages and installations.
Hundreds of vertically stacked, treated bricks allude
to cross-sections of ore. Brightly coloured stacked
steel units make reference to geological map legends,
aluminium saucepans and hundreds of topographic and
geological maps folded into fancy paper shopping bags
provoke viewers to reflect on the origins of consumer
goods. More recently my work has included bread, salt,
wheat, water, rock samples and air photos to provoke
reflection of our day-to-day impact on worsening salinity
problems in the breadbaskets of Australia and chronic
drought conditions across most of Australia.
I have included a section of favourite recipes as my
cooking is a life long passion,
cultivates the most marvellous friendships and continues
to be my passport to remote and wild areas. My garden
is my home; it grounds me. Every day something from
the organic vege patch makes it way into a meal. The
garden is also designed as a refuge for native fauna.
It’s amazing how in 5 years we have transformed
what the real estate agent boasted as a ‘low maintenance
garden’ (which in reality was mostly concrete
and brick) into habitats for countless creatures and
where the wind sings through the trees and birds drink
the nectar of thousands of native plants.
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